On April 2, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the Southern Theater launched a major operation on the China-Myanmar border. In order to deter the "two tigers," our army conducted a large-scale military exercise with live ammunition. The army and air force highly coordinated in this exercise, dispatching a large number of troops, armored vehicles, and fighters, and even the Hongqi-22 air defense missile system and the new 625 artillery integrated air defense system were moved, demonstrating the high combat level of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and advanced weapons and equipment.
Although this military exercise is just a "very ordinary" exercise for China, it has a very obvious deterrent meaning for Myanmar. Obviously, this time the fight was very effective.
On April 3, Myanmar issued a shocking announcement: At the request of the Chinese side, Deputy Defense Minister Aung Lim Tun had been arrested on suspicion of wire fraud.
This sentence reveals a lot of information: First, Myanmar's vice minister of defense is actually suspected of the crime of wire fraud? Second, China actually asks another country to arrest its defense minister? Doesn't it mean that China never interferes in the internal affairs of other countries? What is going on?
Myanmar's Deputy Minister of Defense/Umbrella for the Wire Fraud Group
Aung Lington, who was initially a nobody, rose to the rank of deputy defense minister because he was appreciated by Min Aung Hlaing during the coup.
Before Aung Lim was arrested, Min Aung Hlaing trusted him very much, and almost all matters in the country had to be asked before making a decision, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Aung Lim Thun was a confidant.
Aung Linton's official position is not low, and he is also a confidant of the Prime Minister of Myanmar, why does the Chinese side "stretch out so long" and actually ask Myanmar to seize Aung Linton?
That's because Aung Lintun was arrested, and he deserved it. In recent years, Myanmar has not attracted the attention of its neighbors because of its own development, but because of electricity fraud, it has become a rotten egg, and none of its neighbors is stable. In particular, how many Yunnan people on the border with China and Myanmar have suffered from it?
Myanmar can rot from within, and that's something that Myanmar's national leaders should be worried about. But this wind of decay should not spread to China and harm our compatriots. Because of this incident, the top leaders of China and Myanmar do not know how many times they have talked, and each time they have ended up without a problem, the reason is because the government army is too weak.
However, Myanmar's electric fraud can develop to the scale it is today, and these electric fraudsters alone cannot do it, the key is that there is a very serious problem of "officials and bandits protecting each other" in Myanmar, and many high-ranking officials are secretly colluding with the leaders of Burmese electric fraud, among which Aung Lintun is the highest-ranking official of the Burmese government who has been arrested for electric fraud.
Aung Linton holds a lot of power and is the prime minister's confidant, and is the best "protective umbrella" for the wire fraud group. It is precisely because of his protection that some wire fraud groups can become stronger and stronger, and the government army is particularly careless when suppressing this aspect.
The reason why China is involved in this is because Myanmar's wire fraud has seriously affected the mainland. The mainland has already discussed with the Burmese side that the ringleaders of the wire fraud will be handed over to the mainland to deal with in order to set an example.
There is also evidence of China's targeting of Aung Lington, which came to Yunnan in January 2024 and signed a ceasefire agreement between them in January 2024. At the same time, the Chinese side demanded that the Myanmar government must hand over to the Chinese side government personnel who had provided assistance to the wire fraud syndicate. Among the people handed over by the Myanmar side, many people pointed out Aung Linton, and the Chinese side demanded that Min Aung Hlaing must hand over Aung Linton.
A military exercise, knocking "two tigers"
In recent years, there has not only been the problem of wire fraud in Myanmar, but also various "independence forces", which, with the support behind them, often compete with the government army for territory and contradict it. What's more, the government forces can't beat it. The most "outstanding" of these is the Kachin Independence Army.
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is now fighting hard in Burma, and in less than a month, it has been able to take away more than 50 outposts and nine Burmese army strongholds from government forces, including six military bases close to the mainland, including Reki, one of the five major border crossings on the China-Myanmar border. Moreover, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is very anti-Chinese and has repeatedly harassed mainland workers and even kidnapped them. In order to deter the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and make them be honest and not attack the Chinese workers, the Chinese side will launch this exercise.
In addition, although Myanmar has ostensibly promised to cooperate with China in arresting the criminals involved in wire fraud, in fact, judging from the recent actions, Myanmar is completely pretentious and foolish.
The military exercise launched by the Chinese side is also aimed at knocking out the tiger of Myanmar, so that they can weigh it for themselves, and stop trying to fool the Chinese side at will, and the things promised before must be done.
Min Aung Hlaing apparently received the signal as well, and the next day he made public the news of Aung Lington's arrest. Myanmar deliberately wrote in the announcement that it would "according to China's request," which has a strong sense of goodwill. Min Aung Hlaing could not defeat the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in the first place, and if the Chinese side is dissatisfied with the wire fraud and turns to support other armed forces, Min Aung Hlaing will have no place to cry. Therefore, Min Aung Hlaing has a sense of surrender, hoping that even if the Chinese side does not help the government army, it will maintain a neutral position and not get too close to other "independence forces".